Trading Ideas

How do you make use of the spare moments in your day? Do you prefer to work ahead or use that time for a break?
Today, Mark Ford explains how those spare moments can have a major impact on your goal of achieving a rich life.

Jack and Jill live in the same apartment building and work in the same office. They both wake up at 7 a.m., shower, have breakfast and get to work by 8 a.m. It is at this point that their habits diverge.
From 8 a.m. until 9 a.m. (when the rest of the workers come into the office), …read more […]

A Note from Bond Strategist Steve McDonald: I’m tired of pounding the table…
Last September, I told you to quit stocks and shift into bonds. I said the stock market would sell off – and boy, I hope you listened. Just take a look at what happened.

A couple of weeks later, the fourth quarter began and stocks tanked, sending the S&P 500 down 14% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 17% for the quarter.
If you had pulled money from stocks at the end of last summer – not all of it, just some, as I advised – and put it into bonds, …read more […]

I’d like to open today’s Trade of the Day with a quote from Max Gunther’s The Zurich Axioms:
Accept small losses cheerfully as a fact of life. Expect to experience several while awaiting a large gain.
A big part of Smart Speculation is being properly positioned ahead of time for a future move to occur.
If executed properly – and your speculative position hits – you’ll be cashing in when everyone else is hearing about the payoff for the very first time.
Even if a speculative position doesn’t hit (which will happen), don’t worry – because you likely won’t suffer a catastrophic loss.
You see, …read more […]

Some days, facing the news cycle maelstrom feels overwhelming. And we’re in a period where all news is seemingly bad news.
A couple of weeks ago, it looked as if pot stocks were bottoming out and the hurricane of negative headlines for cannabis was coming to an end.
Unfortunately, in recent days, we’ve witnessed an abrupt reversal of fortune from the North American Marijuana Index.
So for this week’s Making the Grade, I wanted to remind investors of the top performers over the past month. The sun may not be shining on all pot stocks right now, but a few are enjoying a …read more […]

Recent market volatility has spurred fears of a looming recession and bear market.
Today, Nicholas Vardy explains what Sir John Templeton, the father of global investing, would have done and how savvy investors can follow his example and prepare themselves today.

Click here to listen to today’s article.
Speculation of a looming U.S. recession has been acute.
Analysts like Gary Shilling suggest that we are already in the midst of a recession.
In contrast, Trump advisor Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, recently asserted, “I don’t see a recession at all.”
This debate has struck global stock market sentiment hard.
The CNN Fear & …read more […]

“You’ll never make that money back!” the pitchman breathlessly exclaimed.
The guy on the radio was selling annuities and warning investors not to put their money in the risky “Wall Street casino.”
He tried to scare listeners by telling them that if the market crashed like it did in 1987 or we had another nasty bear market like in 2000 or 2008 that “it would take a lifetime to make that money back.”
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
On October 19, 1987, or Black Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 22.6%.
It was the biggest one-day drop in U.S. stock market history.
But it …read more […]

On July 2, I posted a Trade of the Day titled “Can You Trust the Market’s Recent Run?”
The point of this article was simple…
According to the earliest known form of modern technical analysis, the major market averages were not confirming an upside trend!
As a refresher, I wrote…
Dow Theory was developed by Charles Dow, who, with Edward Jones, founded Dow Jones & Company and developed the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The two published their market theories in a series of editorials in The Wall Street Journal, which was co-founded by Dow. Dow Theory says that the market is in an upward …read more […]

Stocks were the most popular investment in America last year. But this year, real estate is winning out. And cryptocurrency is growing in popularity as well.
According to a July 2019 nationwide survey from Bankrate, real estate is the most popular long-term investment across all age groups. Thirty-one percent of respondents selected real estate, up from 22% in 2018. Stocks dropped in popularity by nearly 40%.
And investing in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has doubled in popularity since last year – from 2% to 4%. The increased popularity of real estate and crypto investments is being driven by young investors.
In the 2019 …read more […]

I warned ya!
I said last week that pot stock investors were going to have to run the gauntlet. And true to form… it was a brutal one.
Our High Five all reported earnings. And the list comprised some very notable names in the industry: Canopy Growth Corp. (NYSE: CGC), Greenlane Holdings (Nasdaq: GNLN), Neptune Wellness Solutions (Nasdaq: NEPT), Tilray (Nasdaq: TLRY) and Village Farms International (Nasdaq: VFF).
Unfortunately, the companies left very little to cheer about…

It was nearly across-the-board misses. And the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences Index ETF (OTC: HMLSF) was dragged down more than 6% for the week.
The hardest hit of …read more […]

Some people spend every penny they make and live paycheck to paycheck, even as their incomes rise. But there is a growing belief that they are not responsible for their own financial woes.
Today, Alexander Green explains why the key to wealth creation is responsibility.

As I boarded a plane in New York last week, I noticed the man in front of me was wearing a veterans T-shirt.
On the back it said “It’s not that I could and others couldn’t. It’s that I did and others didn’t.”
Rarely has so much been said with so few words.
That slogan, in fact, can illuminate large …read more […]

Q: What are the first three questions you ask a founder when you’re researching an investment?
A: Question No. 1: How’s your plan going? This question is important because it gets right to the heart of things. How the founder answers will tell you a lot about how confident they are in their startup. If they claim that everything is peachy, but it doesn’t seem like they’ve actually accomplished much, steer clear.
Question No. 2: What opportunities are you most excited about right now? I usually ask the founder to discuss a few different ongoing projects at the company and how they …read more […]

Recently, the road has been rocky for individual investors…
A struggling global economy augmented by trade wars has led many to wonder whether it’s finally the end of this bull market. If our readers’ survey responses are any indication, the biggest waves are still to come.
This week, we asked our readers what worries them most about the market. We also asked them to rank their risk tolerance.
While many respondents said that their greatest worry is volatility, most indicated that they have a moderate to high tolerance for risk.

On the other end of the spectrum, 36.7% said they were “comfortable with only …read more […]

Not all heroes wear capes.
Some of them wear suits… and speak at public hearings.
Like former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts). Frank served in Congress from 1981 through 2013. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980 before that. And he has been a champion for marijuana reform throughout his career.
In 1972, Frank introduced legislation that would have decriminalized cannabis and established a noncommercial legalization model in Massachusetts. In the 1980s, he co-sponsored a federal medical cannabis legalization bill. And he introduced similar legislation himself in 1995.
Frank now works in the cannabis industry. And this past …read more […]

There wasn’t enough time for me to do a full fundamental analysis on General Electric (NYSE: GE) yesterday. Regardless, I shared my thoughts on recent happenings with the company, and War Room members came out ahead.
Here’s the backstory…
An analyst came out with a report Thursday that GE was cooking its books.
This was no ordinary analyst…
It was Harry Markopolos, the same one who called out Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. His opinion is definitely worth some weight. And that weight knocked GE shares down for a loop.
Just the day before, the CEO of GE bought millions of dollars’ worth of stock in …read more […]

General Electric shares dropped 11% yesterday to $7.80 after famed fraud investigator Harry Markopolos released a report calling GE a “bigger fraud than Enron.” You may remember Mr. Markopolos as the man who tried to alert the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to Bernie Madoff’s billion-dollar ponzi scheme a decade before it collapsed.
To be fair, it’s worth noting that Markopolos is working with an unnamed hedge fund that has shorted GE stock and stands to make money if GE shares drop. So Markopolos is not exactly an unbiased witness. Despite this, I’m inclined to listen to what the man has …read more […]